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As a western European, to me the problem isn’t that they’re fired on the spot, but that a company can actually do that. You guys should’ve fought for your rights.
Population density, it's easy to protest when the capital is just 30 minutes away by bike like it is in a lot of Western European countries.
Conversely, I'm an American, it will take days for me to reach the nearest major city by car... it will take me around 2.5 hours to reach the newest minor City.
I live in North Carolina by the way.
You could drive through three countries in Western europe, by the time I could get to my nation's capital. My nation's capital is in virginia, that is the state north of me.
Much of our population lives in California, Texas, and New York, all much much further away from Washington DC then where I live.
Combine that with the fact that a lot of us can't take any days off of work without falling way behind on our bills, and even if the capital was somewhere where we could all get to it to hold picket signs... there is simply too much to lose, the workers of the world can't Unite when there is more on the table than our chains. I hate it here
Ok I'm not even from the states, but you should be able to get to Washington DC in less than a day from North Carolina. Hell, anywhere on the east coast is within 5 hours from a huge metropolitan centre